[Dixielandjazz] Web Sites!

[JazzHags at aol.com]

Tom Wiggins wrote in regard to websites:

"  The unfortunate truth is that most of them are worthless since they do not 
get any traffic and are almost never findable unless you know exactly how to 
get there". 

Tom while I agree with much of your post about promoting bands - I cannot buy 
the above statement.

In the 6 yrs the "Riverside Dixieland Jazz Band" http://riversidejazz.com 
site has been up - the site has received almost 21,000 hits and most of our gig 
enquiries come from the site. 

There are a few tricks to the trade in getting your site to the head of the 
pack on search engines - if you check "dixieland jazz bands" on Google - you 
will find our band listed twice in the top ten.

My intent is to promote the"Musicians-R-Us" site the same way and hopefully I 
can get good web exposure for all that are listed in the directory.

Don't get me wrong I am in no way intimating that our band is getting the 
same amount of work as your bands - but we aren't spending $20,000 a year to 
promote it either.

In promoting a band I definitely believe that a site on the web should be a 
part of your arsenal, it is not the "be all & end all", but it is important.


Doug Burnley
Cornet - Riverside Dixieland Jazz Band
Performers-R-Us (Home of the $79.00 web site)
http://performers-r-us